Curricula

Welcome ESOL

This course provides a safe, culturally sensitive, and welcoming environment for adult immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to gain essential beginner-level English language skills necessary to navigate and settle in New York City. Sixteen original two-hour lessons with a predictable structure include content-relevant discussion pictures, conversations, vocabulary, grammar points, helpful websites, stories, and review discussions. This predictability allows learners to focus on skills and content, enhancing their confidence. 

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Citizenship Preparation Course
This multi-level, learner-accessible course provides a safe and welcoming environment for adult immigrants to prepare for their naturalization interviews and tests. Twelve original lessons with a predictable structure include English small-talk practice, command comprehension, clarification language, USCIS reading and writing exercises, N-400 (Application for Naturalization) vocabulary-in-context question-and-answer activities, engaging civics lessons, and helpful grammar reviews. English reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills are practiced throughout.

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Citizenship Preparation Group (Volunteer-led) 
This curriculum comprises twenty-four original lessons that follow a predictable routine and structure, allowing students to focus on developing their skills and content knowledge. Each lesson includes a visual introduction, a warm-up small talk question, an overview of the naturalization interview and test, N-400 section-specific question examples, a civics topic, USCIS reading and writing preparation, and a mock interview review.